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- From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: First impression, PKZIP 2.04c
- Message-ID: <3564@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 18:46:30 GMT
- References: <3552@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1993Jan8.125356.25448@htsa.aha.nl>
- Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht
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- In <1993Jan8.125356.25448@htsa.aha.nl> eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes) writes:
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- >pkzip 2.04c for small files
-
- >and arj for big files
-
- What about ARJ for everything :-).
-
- >A reason for me to use arj is the good multi-volume support
-
- >(i heard pkzip sucks)
-
- It contains some bugs. IMO PKWARE should disable the features giving
- 0.1% speed improvement and 99.9% crash increase forever. The version
- before 1.10 (1.0?) also suffered from problems in this direction (386
- support was the problem back then). In essence PKZIP 2.04c is a very
- impressive program, expecially the Super Fast compression is real state
- of the art. The only other programmer capable of making such optimized
- software I know of is Andrew Cadach. All others just make slower
- code.
-
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- To get (many) ==> LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION SOURCES <== get lds_10.zip at
- garbo.uwasa.fi /pc/programming. Make files for Borland C are included.
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